As a result, ‘Operation Rastaman’ was launched, after witnesses described the suspect in the crimes as having dreads.
Operation Rastaman has already led to the arrest of an illegal immigrant who wasn’t a suspect in either of the cases, but whose only crime was having dreads.
They then arrested another individual with dreads, who was linked to house breaking cases in the area, but not to the murder of the child.
There have also been reports of a rasta who enters people’s homes, eats their cake in their fridges and then leaves again.
Talk about having someone else’s cake and eating it too.
This has prompted local conspiracy theorists to suggest that there is a group of rasta operating in the area. “There has to be a getaway driver rasta, a lookout rasta and surely a weapons expert rasta,” said Brian Knowitall, a local conspiracy theorist. Some have even gone so far as to say that the group’s name could be Dr Victor and the Rasta Rebels, a famous South African band whose many songs have had people dancing for years.
“Their hit song in 2003, ‘I love to truck’, could be code for trucking stolen items,” Mr Knowitall said.
Mr Knowitall was also responsible for suggesting that Dundee’s drought was the handiwork of aliens.
However, rastas have hit back at the allegations, demanding that police change the name of their operation and stop targeting them.
“Them Babylon (Rasta term for police) always be taament (tormenting) us,” said Ivant Green, spokesperson for the rastas in the area.
“It’s not irie man.”
Hawkers, who operate near the taxi rank, are also feeling the pinch. Many of them sell colourful armbands with the dagga leaf on and beads for dreads to wannabe rastas in the area. However, even the wannabes, don’t wanna be a rasta no more.
Barbershops though have seen an influx of people, as locals are eager to cut off their dreads in order to escape prosecution.
The search for the killer and the cake eater go on, but for now police are content in knowing there’s one less criminal on the streets.
